MemberPress vs LearnDash vs Woocommerce Memberships vs Memberium
Which should you use? LearnDash, MemberPress, Woocommerce Memberships and Memberium, all offer solutions to create, sell, and manage online courses. However, each of the platforms have unique features and benefits that cater to different goals.
What Is LearnDash?
LearnDash is a popular learning management system that lead the way in the early 2010’s. Used by many universities, professional training organizations and a few big league fortune 500 companies. It is a LMS plugin for WordPress. It’s goal is to allow you an easily way to create and sell your own courses.
Some of the key features:
- Set up and install in minutes
- Create courses like you would create a regular blog post
- Set one-time prices, recurring subscriptions, or membership plans.
- Get access to advanced features like gamification techniques, engagement triggers, and reward systems.
- Build quizzes and exams for your courses.
- Issue certifications that are fully customizable and support dynamic data.
- Take control over front-end user profiles.
- And much more…
- There are plenty of addons, payment options, and other integrations to expand functionality.
So what is the price point?
- Basic plan: $159 for a single site license and unlimited courses and users.
- Plus package: $189 for 10 site license.
- Pro package: $329 for 25 site license.
What Is MemberPress?
First released in 2017, MemberPress is by far the best of the WordPress membership plugin on the market today. It not only allows you to create course work, but also protect your content with only subscribers, of different levels, accessing different content.
It ‘s features:
- Navigate a user-friendly dashboard and easy installation process.
- Create multiple membership levels and set permissions according to categories, tags, keywords, and more.
- Set access for posts according to membership plans directly from the block editor.
- Configure one-time prices, recurring subscriptions, or membership plans.
- Control the durations of membership plans and trial periods.
- Rely on a dedicated and reliable support team.
- Basic: Costs $149 for a single site license. It gives you access to create and sell courses to unlimited members.
- Plus: Costs $249 for 2 sites.
- Pro: Costs $349 for 5 sites
What Is Woocommerce Memberships?
Another player in the field is Woocommerce memberships. While this plugin does not create content, such as courses and screen videos, it does allow different types of memberships to gain access to different pages. Thus it is a tool that allow discrimatory page access based on a membership level.
Features:
- Navigate a user-friendly dashboard and easy installation process.
- Create multiple membership levels and set permissions according to categories, tags, keywords, and more.
- Set access for posts according to membership plans directly from the block editor.
- High integrated with Woocommerce Subscriptions and Woocommerce main.
Price point:
- Single Price: Costs $199 for a single site license. It gives you access to create and sell courses to unlimited members.
What Is Memberium?
A early to the membership plugin offers. Memberium is similar to Woo-commerce Memberships. It’s only purpose is to control page plugins for word press. The key difference is, Memberium is highly integrated with 2 other services: ActiveCampaign and Influsionsoft. It is through those later services, that Memberium contains it’s power
Features:
- Navigate a user-friendly dashboard and easy installation process.
- Create multiple membership levels
- Integrated with ActiveCampaign or Influsionsoft
Price point:
This is where Memberium is to be questioned….price. Unlike other services, memberium charges by the month, making the yearly price, off the chart
- Standard Plan: Costs $855 a year, for a single site license. It gives you access to create and sell to unlimited members on 1 domain.
- Pro Plan: Costs $1174 a year, for a single site license on unlimited domains. It gives you access to create and sell to unlimited members and allows for group accounts.
- Advanced Plan: Costs $2244 a year, for a single site license on unlimited domains. It gives you access to create and sell to unlimited members and allows for group accounts. Allows for 3 apps to be connected.
COMPARING
WOOCOMMERCE MEMBERSHIPS
If you are looking for an extremely simple page delineator, high integrated with Woocommerce Subscriptions and Woocommerce, without any need for course creation, then this is the product to use. Nothing overally complicated and easily blended into your pages and product description.
LEARNDASH
What separates LearnDash from Woocommerce Memberships and MemberPress is that this plugin is designed specifically for online course creation.
MEMBERPRESS
Where as MemberPress combines worlds, offering not only delinated page control based on membership type, but also provides an add-on course creation feature. Adding one step better, MemberPress has 3rd party plugins that can combine the features of Woocommerce subscriptions, with it’s integrated Woocommerce controls and extremely wide payment gateways.
Memberpress, as a stand alone, offers’s it’s own payment gateway via stripe or an addon via Authorize.net, but the interface is more limited as compared to Woocommerce.
MEMBERIUM
Memberium is more closely related to Woocommerce membership, in that it only controls page access by membership type. It’s power is integrated access to InflusionSoft. They openly are focused on small startup business who may be overwhelmed by all the features of the other 3 membership packages. More recently, the plugin has added an entry level payment system to stripe US based. It is simple and there is support there, that is open an honest with what memberium can and can not do.
WHICH IS EASIER?
All 4 plugins do not require any knowledge of coding. They all offer user-friendly dashboards that let you set up, create memberships in minutes. Depending on what you want to achieve will be the determintor.
PRO – CONS – COMMENTS
MemberPress is considered the #1 membership plugin, but has limited pay-point capacity, unless you work through Woocommerce Subscriptions via a 3rd party plugin.
Woocommerce Membership have woocommerce, the #1 e-commerce package in the behind them. But it does not have courses built in.
LearnDash is the educational system popular pick. All it does is the courses and for a school setting, that works perfectly since login access is generally limited to students of the institution.
Memberium
Something to consider, is Memberium has some technical assumptions that may either enhance or destroy your website presence. Their focus is on one to one active update such as active communication between members . As such, they do not recommend that any caching be allowed. Caching causes issues in display. As such CDN and other caching hosting, such as WPEngine, are out of the question, if you want a consistent user interface.
There support is excellent and 24/7, unlike other plugins. However that caching limitation, unless you have an extremely small membership, may want you to look elsewhere. If not for pricing, but for technical flexibility.
CLOSE UP
What you ultimately choose, depends on your web designer, your own personal skills and how big you want to grow.
Debbie Kurth
CEO & Technical Director of Multimedia Designs, LLC, System Designer, Developer, Producer with 15+ years in the internet design and development space and 25+ years in the Software Development for the entertainment industry. Winner of the prestigious International Themed Entertainment Association award for interactive design. She holds a degree in Computer Engineering & Mathematics from California State University, Long Beach.
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